Zed Guild

A 12-week cohort program for a select group of contributors to work on features, issues, and ship good code alongside our team.

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Why You Should Join

Guild members wield real influence on the Zed repo.

Our Commitment

Ownership of real work with assigned focus areas (Git, extensions, core editor, etc.)
Hands-on Rust mentorship: code alongside a dedicated Zed dev to level up your skills and build your resume
A dedicated community: private channel, pairing system, biweekly office hours, and demo days
Pathways to grow from non-code contributions into code contributions

Cohort Structure

12-week program split into phases
5–10 hours per week commitment
Community Champions are fast-tracked directly to code contributions
Work ships directly into Zed

Grand PrizeA paid trip to Rust Week to hang with the Zed team!

Contribute in Your Way

Get into our codebase, fully built in Rust, and grow your skills solving real problems.

Work Tracks

Repro Team

Triage, verify, and reproduce bugs across real setups (Windows, macOS, Linux, WSL, etc.) to help us fix issues faster.

Bug Basher

Take on prioritized issues in core product areas and ship fixes that help thousands of users.

Ship Features

Work on curated features with Rust and our codebase, pairing with a Zed dev to get them over the finish line.

Program Timeline

February 9th to 27th
Applications open.
March 2nd
Cohort members announced.
March 2nd
Cohort begins.
May 11th
Cohort 1 wraps up & trip to Rust Week!

Contributor Board

All issues from this board are fair game; they are your best path to getting a PR merged.

Bug Bashers

131

Can not cmd+click to open a file outside the project root in ssh remote terminal

Syntax highlighting not working correctly in Markdown Preview with nested injections

Cannot auto-update Zed on Arch Linux because the `rsync` utility is missing

Accessibility Bug: Line Statuses are not Colorblind-Friendly

Windows: Can't upload recompiled extension to WSL remote

$SHLVL starts at 2 and increases by 1 every time Zed is reloaded

Examples are outdated and incompatible with current gpui version

Accessibility: macOS On-screen keyboard word completion issues

Reopening and interacting with the command palette when its submenu is already open will close the palette

Helix: Some weird behaviour

Line misindentified in Helix select mode when ␤newline is selected

Zed does not respect "ensure_final_newline_on_save" with Helix mode

Helix mode, problems near empty line at the end of the file

SVG Preview not rendering emojis

[UI] Cannot re-enable worktree security after disabling it

Checkboxes aren't rendered in tables in markdown preview

Table columns don't have auto-width in markdown preview

A Zed config in a symlinked directory is not applied when I change it

`method_definition` in nested object does not show up in the Outline Panel

Profile's default_model is ignored on startup, global default_model is used instead

`git_panel::ToggleFocus` doesn't put focus on Git panel when "No Git repository"

Selecting `(` in function call also selects first inlay hint

No red squiggly underlines when `semantic_tokens` is set to `full`

Saving a new file defaults to the last file's directory, even if it's a preview tab in a venv

Settings file is restored to both panes after restart, closing in 1st pane closes in 2nd pane

UI: Collapsed multibuffer shows buffer text underneath the header when hovered

lsp/python: wrong workspace folder when opening only file (ty panic)

git_ui: Push/Fetch/Pull buttons remain clickable while operation is in progress

git_ui: the split/unified diff selection is not remembered

Closing a file removes diagnostics when `settings.diagnosticMode` is set to `workspace`

Settings window won't open without an open project window

'Find All References' and 'Rename Symbol" commands doesn't work in Svelte components

Vim Surround doesn’t detect the correct quote pair.

Pressing "Toggle Replace" on Project Search controls focused buffer search instead

A red color is absent from all dark themes, only visible on light

Debugger doesn't work offline

Remote Dev: github.com listed as SSH host, fails with confusing error

Find and Replace All only works the 2nd time you open Zed

regression with use of relative path for external formatter

pane::RevealInProjectPanel should focus/open project panel for non-project buffers

macOS's `⌘E` shortcut does not work to search for the currently selected text

Connecting to remote - WSL development failed to copy file with failed: zsh:1: unmatched '

Test run gutter marker appear inside markdown code blocks but do nothing when clicked

Markdown rewrap collapses all list or quote lines into a single item

Inconsistent welcome page display on launch—alternates between welcome page and untitled buffer

workspace: Create new WorkspaceId(<id>) when there is an actual project

Error compiling regex: Look-behind assertion without constant size

Middle click closes a pinned tab

Agent thread history shows threads from all workspaces and fails to open threads created in a different directory

QR Code/Unicode formatting broken in the Terminal

Tailwind LSP suggestions/autocomple not working with large file

Verbose Rust Analyzer Errors

Automatically detect language for pasted code

Make 'Install CLI' usable without admin privileges

Include info level diagnostics as counter next to warning and error

Add option for configuring left-side or right-side window control buttons on Linux

Please add global menu in Linux

add tutorial on developing an extension

CamelHump treatment for alt-[arrows] keys

Select All Matches auto-scrolls to the last occurrence when editing the initial one

In helix mode, on zed, Ctrl-s saves the file instead of saving selection to a jumplist as it should

Document the different ways to configure Tailwind in your language/framework

Option to disable automatic trailing whitespace removal on empty lines

Zed Preview: "View Release Notes" lands on /releases/stable due to build-metadata version in URL

after opening/selecting a file using navigator, folding chords split window

"Show Whitespace" does not show trailing space if line contains non-breaking space

Emacs-style Kill Ring Support

helix match mode is incomplete

Editor::KillRingCut should support for multiple lines (emacs)

In Helix mode subword movements do not select the last subword unlike word

Markdown Preview - Images/Media Not Rendered Correctly

Better text rendering

SSH remote server timeout with ProxyCommand and LocalCommand

Cursor Disappears When Opening Collab Panel via Status Bar Icon Button

"diff clipboard with selection" command adds newline to clipboard content

Inconsistent save behavior with vim mode and autosave on_focus_change

Trashing paths from git panel doesn't work when a subdirectory of the repo is open

GPUI: Add pinch event support for X11 and Windows

Rainbow bracket not coloring correctly

Folding of code gets weird on multiline text containing brackets

Helix: search project files only opens when tabs are present

"diff clipboard with selection" doesn't support split view

Zed incorrectly continues parent numbering for indented/nested list items instead of restarting at 1

Project Symbols does not go to correct line when diffs_expanded

Crash on multiple selections in Helix mode at end of file

Zed update broke my Go, then my D

Opening a Recent Project fails with unsaved scratch buffer

ZSH: Incorrect syntax highlighting

Symlinked directory does not update with changes made outside the editor

gpui: bottom-aligned ListState scrollbar thumb disappears at the end

Helix x bind inconsistency

Multi-line cursor expansion does not like umlauts

Agent chat, newline inserted in wrong position

search setting doesn't work for buffer search

Zed fails to open symlinked settings file on Windows

New staged file stays in Untracked section

FormatSelections Command does not work

Markdown preview underline wrap-around bug

Word diff is not displayed on the last line if the file lacks a trailing newline

File paths in Task output are not parsed as links

`update_settings_file` deletes settings if settings file needs to be migrated

Intermittent issues with copying text to clipboard (Linux, KDE Plasma Wayland session)

In JS/TS/TSX the "await" keyword is not related to "keyword.control" theme token while in VSCode is.

Issue with highlighting for .gitignore files/directories

Git diff view is blank on Windows when project root is a subfolder of the git repo

Bash language server not launched for shell scripts

MCP Servers from .zed/settings.json not picked up when more than one project in workspace

Gemini CLI external agent does not start when using Gemini's sandbox

Destructured function parameters with defaults don't get parameter syntax highlighting

Character in title of settings window is not encoded properly

Deleting a project from "Recent Projects" resets scroll position to the top

Regression: Zed CLI instance shares environment variables between windows again in 0.219.5

Mistral: Agent crash on setup

Wrong selection in `Outline Panel` for MD files

`ctrl-n` shortcut doesn't open a "New file" at "Welcome" page

Paste in Vim mode replaces system clipboard with overwritten selection

Slow tree-sitter parsing on broken code

Agent panel: Can't use keyboard shortcut to accept tool commands while the input box is focused

Include ignored files in search results toggle not functioning

Agent Chat Box doesn't Resize/Expand properly

Page up/down in the command palette does the wrong thing

Starting Zed from bash console leaves a ctrl character in the buffer

gopls language server shows wrong status when not installed

GPT-models like GPT 5.4 from Github Copilot do not use reasoning

Gemini API: "failed to stream completion" in Write mode due to strict JSON Schema validation on tools

Invisible terminal issue

Project Diagnostics toolbar shows Inline Assistant button when agent is disabled

ctrl+tab jumps to random documents when the mouse is moved

Copy button overlaps Agent response (code/copy blocks)

Git diff preview follows symlinks and shows target file contents instead of symlink path

AI: Input cleared when starting new thread in agent panel with Cmd+N

Ship a New Feature

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Staged and Unstaged diffs

Optionally save dirty buffers before running a task

Drag tab to open new window

Telescope-style search box

Make Breadcrumbs Clickable

Ordering of search tokens in file finder fuzzy match

Cannot undo actions in the project panel

Add support for jj SCM

Bookmarks

Commit partial changes / Line-by-line staging

Font rendering on LoDPI displays

Using `zed --wait` from the integrated terminal does not focus that terminal when closing the opened buffer.

Multi-select files in the git panel

Shipped by the Guild

9

Outline filtering always select the last match at first

Zed opens previously open projects randomly

Keymap editor does not delete or override defaults correctly

[Vim] Repeat does not respect register

opt-shift-tab isn't recognized

Vim select next missing from which-key

Support including full selected line range in output of `editor::CopyFileLocation` command

Exiting Plan Mode resets permission mode to Accept Edits instead of restoring the previous selection

LSP `additionalTextEdits` fail to detect overlaps with secondary cursors during completions

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